Our trip to Paris began on the bus from Bordeaux at 11:30am. It was a b**** of a drive! We ended up getting into Paris after 10:00 at night. I some how managed to score the entire back row of seats to myself so I just kicked back and watched Les Miserable, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Family Guy along the way. I got my first glimpse of the Eiffel Tower as we were driving along the outskirts of Paris. I just about lost my s***. It kind of hit me then that we ar...

Oh Bordeaux. We began our journey from San Sebastián. It only took us about 40 minutes to cross the Spanish border into France and it was go time. I smashed some breadies (bread sticks for all you white people out there) and enjoyed a wonderful documentary on the coach hosted by John Cleese titled, 'Wine for the confused.' It was different. I learnt that John Cleese is a bit of a piss head and nothing about wine. So it was obviously very educational and did the...

Despite Katrina's warnings, I loved Avignon!! I know Trini will disown me a little, but Nikki will love me more (if that's even possible) for saying it, but I had such a good time in Avignon! It is so cute and there's a carrousel in the middle of the town! It's adorable. :) When the bus dropped us off, we went and got lunch at a little bakery near the drop off point. Afterwards, we hopped on a bus that we thought would take us into Avignon as that's where we wer...

Unfortunately we didn't get to experience much of Nice as we both got slammed by heat stroke and were sick for a couple of days. But, it was Arrividerci Italy, Bounjour France!! On the bus from La Spezia to Nice my ears were aching so bad. We got into Nice about 6 at night and we went straight to out hotel to dump our bags, got kebabs and then went to bed to rest. Our hotel room was really small and cute but weird at the same time. Our bathroom had been built in...